MEDIA MONITORING DATABASE
Detention of Kardelen Yoğungan
RELATED PERSON OR INSTITUTION
Kardelen Yoğungan
CITY
İstanbul
YEAR OF INTERFERENCE
2021
LAST UPDATED
30/04/2021
TYPE OF STATEMENT
Political
MEDIUM
Other
THE TITLE OF WHOSE RIGHT IS INTERFERED
Journalist
RIGHTS GUARANTEED UNDER THE RIGHT OF FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION
Right to Impart Information and Ideas
TYPE OF INTERFERENCE
Third-Party Interference
Physical Interference

Taylan Özgür Öztaş, a reporter for Özgür Gelecek (Free Future), Serpil Ünal, a reporter for Mücadele Birliği (Struggle Union), and Kardelen Yoğungan, a reporter for Kızıl Bayrak (Red Flag), were taken into custody during a police intervention against the press statement attempted to be held by dismissed Sinbo workers in front of the factory in İstanbul’s Avcılar on April 19, 2021.

Öztaş and Yoğungan were released after they gave their statements at the police station. Ünal was released a day later, on April 20, after spending one night at the detention center on the grounds of a detention warrant issued against her over a missing statement as part of an investigation against her due to her social media posts.